The rug that will be the best for your living room is almost entirely dependent on how you are decorating. A variety of fabrics can work well, but be sure that when you pick a fabric you get one that can handle some wear and tear. You will spend a substantial amount of time walking on the carpet, moving furniture around the carpet and doing other activities that could possibly damage it. Do not waste your money by sacrificing quality for price. Having to buy two or three cheap rugs over the course of a few years is more expensive than just buying one quality rug and having it last the whole time.



Because of this need for quality, thick rugs tend to go best in a living room. They tend to be well padded, and will leave your feet comfortable and your steps cushioned. But whether your rug is thick or thin, be sure to purchase a pad for underneath it. If your rug slides and bunches often, it will be damaged more easily and wear down faster. You also do not want to have a child innocently playing near the edge of the carpet when it slides out of place and knocks him/her over. For safety and comfort you should invest in a pad.

When it comes to styles and colors, the consumer has a bevy of options. For a contemporary living room, you have a few choices that are ideal. Using basic colors such as pure white, browns and cr?mes you can perfectly accent the rest of your room. A solid color rug that employs these colors is a perfect choice for contemporary rooms. A more daring, but higher reward option is to choose a rug that uses one color in a striking way to contrast with the simplicity of color in the rest of the room.

Cottage

If you are looking for the perfect Cottage style living room, you will have a very different image in your head than for the contemporary room. Botanical colors such as persimmon and shades of green should be the carpets that catch your eye for this style of decorating. Intermingling bright spots of color with the subtler, almost pastel botanical shades will really bring the cottage style to the forefront if you do it well. The ideal rug will feature a complex pattern of sage greens and subtle flowery hues offset with the use of bright color.

Traditional

Trying to fit into the Traditional frame of d'cor begins to bring you into the classic Persian rugs and other carpets of their ilk. Bronzes, rich burgundy, azure blue and muted tans are the trend here, and can be applied in a variety of ways. The overall atmosphere of the perfect carpet for this style of room should be grand, but with a sense of warmth and hominess as well. It is a difficult combination to pull off, but a gorgeous one when it works.

Mediterranean

The Mediterranean look will give you the chance to use some bright, bold colors. Blues, greens, brown and yellow are just a few of the color schemes that you regularly have at your disposal. These colors tend to mimic the outdoors, especially the water and sky. While tile has historically been the trend in portraying this decorative style, you can find rugs that follow the most classic tile patterns closely. Rugs that follow the Mediterranean school of decorating can manage to simultaneously give your room a warm, welcoming, formal and grand appearance all at once. Somehow, these usually contradictory feels can mingle and mesh in this type of decoration.

Modern

A final style of decoration that you may want to try and match your carpet with is the modern. This category is often mistaken for contemporary, but the differences can be significant. Modern follows contemporary in terms of using simplicity in color, but sticks almost entirely to the neutral tones. There is very little room for decorative touches beyond using geometric patterns in modern styling, and rugs that fit a modern room should be solid in color or appear mathematically complex.

Transitional

The transitional style takes a blend of traditional and modern designs to create a new twist on classic elegance. You may see the delicate flowers in the classic Oriental rug replaced by a bold, large floral design of a postmodern painting. Or a traditional pattern arranged in a new way such as a quilt-type block design. Transitional rug designs can really help you pull together a room with a mixture of antique and contemporary furniture.

No matter what type of room you have, you can find the best rug for it. There are many styles that you could buy from, but the only way to buy the best rug is to match it well with the rest of your decorative scheme.